Movies and TV shows like Boardwalk Empire
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Boardwalk Empire (2010)
216K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Boardwalk Empire is a period drama focusing on Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on the historical Enoch L. Johnson), a political figure who rose to prominence and controlled Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition period of the 1920s and 1930s. Nucky interacts with several historical figures in both his personal and political life, including mobsters, politicians, government agents, and the common folk who look up to him. The federal government also takes an interest in the bootlegging and other illegal activities in the area, sending agents to investigate possible mob connections but also looking at Nucky's lifestyle—expensive and lavish for a county political figure.
Primetime Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer Terence Winter adapted the show from Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, a book by Nelson Johnson about historical criminal kingpin Enoch L. Johnson.
Style:
costume drama, serious, period piece, erotic, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful, tense, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, smuggling, mob boss, businessman, prohibition, criminal heroes, organized crime, gangster, federal agent, female nudity, corruption, crime boss, politics, politician, american history, prohibition era, political corruption, ambitious, elimination, sex scene, murder, bandit, election, rivalry, society ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 2000s, 2010s, year 2010, 1900s, post world war one ...
Place:
new jersey, atlantic city new jersey, cuba, atlantic city, new york, chicago, usa
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Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 229 min.
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Audience:
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Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Duration: 50 min.
TV show
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Style:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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TV show
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Style:
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